because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
ALAN JACKSONI think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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I don’t write all my stuff.
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It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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Somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That’s what makes you so nervous.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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They’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It’s that way everywhere.
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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
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“After 17” is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that’s kind of where I’m at in that part of my life.
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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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I’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
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Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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I’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.
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